BACKGROUND Due to emergency care overcrowding, right care at the right place and time is necessary. Uniform triage of patients contacting different emergency care settings will improve quality of care and communication between health care providers. OBJECTIVE Validation of the computer-based Netherlands Triage System (NTS) developed for physical triage at emergency departments (EDs) and telep...

BACKGROUND The Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) is a well recognized and validated triage system that prioritizes patient care by severity of illness. The aim of this study was to describe the results of Emergency Department (ED) waiting times after the implementation of the CTAS in a major tertiary care hospital emergency department outside of Canada. METHODS A to...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether current validation methods of emergency department triage scales actually assess the instrument's validity. METHODS Optimal methods of emergency department triage scale validation are examined in developed countries and their application to developing countries is considered. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION Numerous limitations are embedded in the process of validating t...

Background Critically ill patients are likely to benefit from being received by a predefined multidisciplinary team providing a structured and well qualified initial examination and immediate treatment of life-threatening conditions. At Viborg Hospital all critically ill non-trauma adult patients have been received by an emergency medical team (EMT) since January 1st 2012. The EMT is a preforme...

Triage in emergency response refers to determining the priority of victims based on their need for treatment and medical intervention. Today, triage is performed by the use of paper-based triage tags. Communication about patients' status is mainly carried out over radio or through handwritten notes. This practice makes it challenging for emergency personnel to keep an overview of the number, lo...

The performance of a triage system can facilitate patient classification in an emergency department, enabling patients in critical condition to receive better medical care; therefore, more perfect allocation and use of resources of emergency medical treatment are required. The correctness of nurses and doctors is related to triage medical care quality, patient satisfaction, and life safety. Hen...

Triage helps to classify patients at emergency departments to make the most effective use of resources distributed. What is more important is that accuracy in carrying out triage matters greatly in terms of medical quality, patient satisfaction and life security. As the numbers of patients in emergency departments increase, learning from the examples of abnormal diagnosis of triage in order to ...

PURPOSE Trained ophthalmic triage staff may not constantly be available in the emergency department of a specialized ophthalmic hospital, particularly at night. To support the current triage process, the aim of this study was to develop an ophthalmic instrument of patient self-triage (ISET). METHODS A preliminary ISET, in the form of a pen-and-paper questionnaire, was refined and validated in...

A total of 37,152 patients attended the Accident & Emergency (A&E) Department of Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM) from 1st January to 31st December 1998. Attendance during early hours (midnight to 0659 hrs.) constituted only 10.4% (3853 cases) whereas that for three other time periods of 0700-1159 hrs., 1200-1759 hrs., and 1800-2359 hrs. was 29.4% (10,927 cases), 30.8% (11,448 cas...